Cricket 1904

A u g . 4, 1904. CRICKET • A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 313 scored 23, thus having a large share in the victory of his side. Maurice Read, the old Surrey cricketer, also plays in Hampshire, and still makes a great many runs for Tichborne Park. W h e n Essex had to g o in a second time on Friday last against Middlesex they had a balance against them of 197. Several members of the team played excellent cricket, and in the end the runs were knocked off, and Middlesex were set the task of making 64 to win. But Essex must reflect sadly that half the wickets were practically thrown away, For McGahey and Douglas, who made the highest see res, were badly run out, while three other men were lbw. A mong the well-known O ld Harrovians who are now touring with the Harrow Wanderers are Messrs. A . N. Hornby, the old Lancashire captain, and A . J. Webbe, the old Oxford University and Middlesex captain. Mr. Webbe made 37 against Hovingham Hall, and 10 and 84 against Manchester University. A lthough Mead has not been succssful with the ball this season on the few occasions when he has played in first-class cricket, he has by no means lost the art of bow ling. A t the end of last week he took eight wickets for 13 runs in the first innings of East Gloucestershire against the M .C.C. and ten out of eleven (there were 12 a side) in the second for 20. U p to the end of July only two bowlers had over a hundred wickets to their credit, viz., J. T. Hearne 111, and Wass 101. The only other bowlers who had taken over 90 wickets were Lees and Warren, each with 99. But Haigh and three Lancashire men (Hallows, Cuttell and Brearley) stood at 88, and J. Gunn and Braund at 89. Rhodes and Arnold at 82, Odell at 83, Cox at 86, and Beeves and Kotze at 80. H a y w a r d stood alone at the end of July with a total of over two thousand runs to his credit—his record for the season was 2294. But F ry with 1984, and Tyldesley with 1898 were not far short of the two thousand, while Ire­ monger was at 1625, H irst at 1627 and Hayes at 1504. Twenty -tw o men had made over a thousand runs up to the end of July. Pry brought his total to over 2000 on Monday. F rom Bombay Mr. Nanabhoy N. Langrana, writes :—“ A cricket match (twelve a-side) was pla jed on June 18th, between the New H igh School and the Elphinstone College B team. For the New H igh School a promising young Parsi bowler named Jehaugir H . Elchidana captured all the eleven wickets of the Elphinstone College in the first innings for 21 runs. I think there is no previous record of a bowler capturing eleven wickets in an innings.” T h is performance is, I believe, unique in the annals of Indian cricket, but in England it has been accomplished on many occasions, two instances occurring last year. Mr. P. H . Morton, at Rossall School in 1876, and Frank Shacklock, at Edinburgh in 1883, bowled down all eleven wickets in an innings in a X I I a-side match. G. T u r n e r , a relation of Mr. A. J. Turner, the well-known Essex cricketer, has scored over a thousand runs this season in school matches for Fettes. D u rin g a match at Hawarden between the village second eleven and St. John’s, a Chester cricket club, a player named Bussell made a big hit for St. John's, and the ball lodged in one of the top branches of a tree on the boundary. An enterprising player was found who climbed the tree and recovered the ball. I n each of his three successive innings, previous to Tuesday when he made 5, J. B . Mason scored a hundred for Kent, viz., 138 v. Yorkshire at Tunbridge Wells, 126 v. Somerset at Beckenham, and 133 v. Essex at Canterbury. I n striking contrast to the above are the three consecutive duck’s eggs made by R . H . Spooner for Lancashire. Two of them were against Worcestershire and the third against Yorkshire. But such little accidents as these are pretty sure to happen to every player at some time during his career, and after he has re­ covered from them he generally has an uninterrupted run of good luck. F rom the S ta r : — The sons of progressive Camberwell are evidently following in the footsteps of their enterpiising borough fathers, for in Green Lane, Champion Hill, a cricket club has secured a few of the discarded L.C.C. horse- tramcars, and are now able to entertain their friends on the “ grand stands” round the playing field. Seen from the adjoining lane the “ pavilions” have a novel aspect. By a little rearrangement of the seats, the outside “ passengers ” are able to comfortably watch the play. T h e eleven chosen to represent Essex against Kent at Canterbury included Tremlin, who at the last moment was advised by his doctor to stand down on account of a mosquito bite on his hand. This as far as I know is an entirely original reason for not playing, but, although mosquitoes have not been as rampant in Essex this season as usual, they can easily place a man hors de combat if they happen to make an example of him. It is worth noting that Buckenham had been left out of the team, but in the absence of Tremlin a telegram was sent to him, and when he arrived on the ground at four o ’ clock he was at once put on to bowl. I n George H irst’s benefit match at Leeds, Lancashire on winning the toss put Yorkshire in, with the result that they had to face a total of 403, and were out for 173. A somewhat similar result occurred in the match at Hampstead on Monday between the home club and South Hampstead. The latter won the toss and put their opponents in, where­ upon Hampstead made 324 for eight wickets declared, getting South Hamp­ stead out for 107. O n e is sorry to see that in their recent southern tour Hampstead were so short of bowlers that they had to take Y oung, the Essex professional, with them. In the match against Shorncliffe Garrison he was not veiy effective on a wet wicket, but against Hythe he took 6 wickets in each innings. A lthough on Monday last week C. B. Fry only required seventy-five runs to complete his second thousand for the season, he has only just managed to make the necessary number in three matches. His scores since his 181 against Surrey are as follows :— v. Derbyshire.................... 17 v Somerset .................... 42 v. Gloucestershire . ... 18 & 6 A l t h o u g h the scoring this week has on the whole been low, there have been several noticeable stands made b y men who have gone in very late. Thus II. D . G. Leveson-Gower and Nice made 98 at the Oval for the ninth Surrey wicket against Notts when eight wickets were down for 133; Lord Hawke and Ernest Snjith made 130 for the eighth wicket of Yorkshire againstLancashire when seven wickets were down for 209; Myers and Hunter in the same innings made 51 runs for the last w ick et; E. A. Halliwell and G. C. White made 154 for the eighth wicket of the South Africans against Leicestershire at Leicester; and Santall and Hargreave made 51 for the last wicket for Warwick­ shire v. Worcestershire. T h e last mail from Australia brought news that F. E. Allan, “ the bow ler of a century,” who was over here in 1878 with the first Australian team, was at the time lying ill in a Melbourne Hos­ pital. The wonderful success which attended F. R. Spofforth and H . F. Boyle in that tour rather overshadowed Frank Allan as a bowler, though, as it was, his left hand showed its cunning suffi­ ciently to prove that his character for infinite variety was thoroughly well deserved. T hough he was not successful as a left-handed bowler, the capacity in which he was mainly tried in the Bank Holiday match at the Oval this week, H . Budgen, the young amateur from Reigate, may yet make his mark in Surrey cricket. He is a right-handed bat, but Was not lucky enough to get started in either innings. As a field he has the advantage of being ambidextrous, and here his foot­ ball training helps him, as he is quick on his feet, and besides covering a lot of ground, is, in addition, very safe. A. P . L ucas , the famous old Cambridge cricketer, who was bom in February, 1867, made his reappearance in the Essex team in the match against Kent at Canterbury on Monday. H e played a